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Popular Posters of Planet Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest. Jupiter is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined (the mass of Jupiter is 318 times that of Earth).
· orbit: 778,330,000 km (5.20 AU) from Sun
· diameter: 142,984 km (equatorial)
· mass: 1.900e27 kg
· satellites(63 as of Feb 2004): The Galilean moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto
Jupiter (a.k.a. Jove; Greek Zeus) was the King of the Gods, the ruler of Olympus and the patron of the Roman state. Zeus was the son of Cronus (Saturn).
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